Re: Getting php4 to work on potato?

[Antti Tolamo <antti@tola.org>]

Stan Brown wrote:

> On Sun Nov 25 14:11:55 2001 Antti Tolamo wrote...
>
> > Stan Brown wrote:
> >
> >
> > > I'm having a bit of a problem geting php4 to work on my stable + Progeny +
> > > 2.4 kernel machine.
> > >
> > > I have apache installed and woorking from a .deb package. I downloaded and
> > > compiled php 4.0.6, and all went well. I uncometed thet AddType lines in
> > > the default /etc/apache/httpd.conf file, and I copied php-ini.dist to
> > > /usr/local/lib/php.ini (is this correct for Debian?) I did not edit this
> > > file (should I have?). I stoped and restarted apache.
> > >
> > > I had already created a directory for webvcr, which in theroy should have
> > > working .php files. However when I point my browser to the .php file, it
> > > just offers to downladit.
> > >
> > > What am I doing wrong?
> >
> > Sounds like Apache doesn't  recognize PHP at all.
> >
> > Either it is defined inccorrectly in apache conf files
> > , you don't have PHP installed or Apache doesn't
> > recognize it for some other reasons.
> >
> > I had similar problem, but it was corrected by
> > adding right   php definions to files httpd.conf.
> > and mime.type. I'm not sure what apache
> > you're using, but in stable apache packages those
> > files are created and used. However, far as I know they're
> > only used in Debian.
> >
> > Since PHP was installed as a module to apache, I also checked  at
> > httpd.con was the PHP4 enabled after installation from Debian package.
> > It wasn't and I uncommented the module
> > in there.
>
> My present thought is that I have not compiled php4 coreclty. It appears
> that I may have needed to secify i path to something called "apxs". Problem
> is I don't seem to have any such thing on my system.
>
> Also, I have modifed httpd.conf, but not mime.types. What needs to go in
> there for php4?


I'm no expert with Apache or PHP. put below is what
I've got to work with potato+apache+PHP4. To
clarify a bit PHP4 works with my server  by .php and .php3 extensions,
so some definiton file besides httpd.conf must make it possible:


httpd.conf:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps


mime.types:

application/x-httpd-php php php3
application/x-httpd-php-source phps

srm.conf:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .php3
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps


Antti